Apple sent out an email to MobileMe subscribers today apologizing for the rocky transition from .Mac to MobileMe. The company also announced that current subscribers would receive a free 30-day extension to their MobileMe subscription for the trouble. Additionally, Apple promised to stop using the word "push" to describe everything in MobileMe. At least until pushing to the cloud can happen instantly from a Mac or PC.

If you are having problems, try some of these fixes from Version Tracker:

Reset the synchronization data On your Mac open the MobileMe iSync preferences (from the iSync menu or in the system preferences) and under the "Sync" tab select "Advanced". Then click the "Reset Sync Data" button and you will be presented with the option to replace all sync info or just one type of information (calendars, bookmarks, etc). Select the desired data type and click one of the arrows to ensure you reset in the proper direction. If the data on your Mac is current and up to date, then click the right arrow to replace the data on MobileMe. iSync will then re-sync itself, but it is also recommended to manually invoke sync again by clicking the "Sync Now" button.

Enable automatic synchronization This is required for the MobileMe "push" synchronization to work properly for some services. Many .Mac users have had their synchronization preferences set to either Manual or to sync at a specific interval, and changing it to automatic will allow the sync to occur when changes are made, resulting in the desired "push" behavior. Go to the iSync system preferences and in the "sync" tab ensure "Synchronize with MobileMe" is checked and set to "Automatically" in the drop-down menu.

Remove relevant preferences files After resetting the synchronization data and ensuring all contact and calendar data are available on the servers (albeit not syncing automatically), go to the ~/Library/Preferences folder and remove the synchronization preferences files. These are:

If you are having problems, try some of these fixes from Version Tracker:

Reset the synchronization data On your Mac open the MobileMe iSync preferences (from the iSync menu or in the system preferences) and under the "Sync" tab select "Advanced". Then click the "Reset Sync Data" button and you will be presented with the option to replace all sync info or just one type of information (calendars, bookmarks, etc). Select the desired data type and click one of the arrows to ensure you reset in the proper direction. If the data on your Mac is current and up to date, then click the right arrow to replace the data on MobileMe. iSync will then re-sync itself, but it is also recommended to manually invoke sync again by clicking the "Sync Now" button.

Enable automatic synchronization This is required for the MobileMe "push" synchronization to work properly for some services. Many .Mac users have had their synchronization preferences set to either Manual or to sync at a specific interval, and changing it to automatic will allow the sync to occur when changes are made, resulting in the desired "push" behavior. Go to the iSync system preferences and in the "sync" tab ensure "Synchronize with MobileMe" is checked and set to "Automatically" in the drop-down menu.

Remove relevant preferences files After resetting the synchronization data and ensuring all contact and calendar data are available on the servers (albeit not syncing automatically), go to the ~/Library/Preferences folder and remove the synchronization preferences files. These are:

I hope they issue another apology tomorrow for this weekend. I'm either in that 1% that can't access mail or they are having major troubles again. I think my worst fears have come true about MobileMe. The backend appears to be lacking and the service wasn't ready for primetime. This was nothing more than a rush job to ship with the iPhone. Steve and company should be ashamed. _________________14" 1.25GHz G4 iBook (died)
1.42GHz Mac mini (almost dead)
1.66GHz Core Duo Mac mini (sold)
2.0GHz Core 2 Duo Mac mini '09 (sold)
2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 Mac mini

I hope they issue another apology tomorrow for this weekend. I'm either in that 1% that can't access mail or they are having major troubles again. I think my worst fears have come true about MobileMe. The backend appears to be lacking and the service wasn't ready for primetime. This was nothing more than a rush job to ship with the iPhone. Steve and company should be ashamed.

I've been able to get e-mails. They did do something to their SMTP server though, cause I can't get smtp.mac.com nor smtp.me.com to work, and I've tried a possible ports. ...so now I can't get Window Server reports sent to my .mac/mobile me e-mail address.